Game created by Benjamin Soule of Motion-TwinHosted here with kind permission of the author

Just a quick update to say that we have been moving our bandwidth-heavy content (images, hosted games) during the past few days to a global content delivery network to help the site load faster (no matter where you are in the world). We were hoping this would be completely transparent to you, the visitor, and that we wouldn't have to bother you with a note like this.

Unfortunately, one of the downsides to moving all the games we host is that any game saves you may have created will seem to be missing since Flash stores your data on your hard drive based on the server domain name where the game is being hosted.

Tech savvy users can resurrect those lost saves by locating the .sol file (Flash game save file) for the old domain — will be of the format: flash.games.*.fizzlebot.com where * stands for the first letter in the game title — and move it to where the .sol file is stored for the same game at the new domain, games.jayisgames.com.

If you have a problem with that, leave a comment and someone should be able to help out.

I apologize for any inconvenience this causes you, but rest assured this won't ever likely happen again, and your experience here at Jayisgames should be even better from now on. :)

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For Windows 7, here's where those files probably are located given a standard setup

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#Shared Objects\

where [username] is your windows username, and [random folder name] is a seemingly random bunch of characters. Hopefully there should be only one. If not, and you wish to retain all JiG flash game progress ever, you will have to repeat Jay's instructions starting with the oldest and overwriting if there is a conflict when moving.

Of course we cannot take credit for the game. Back in 2007, when Motion-Twin was moving its site to a new server, they posted this little gem of a game, created by Benjamin Soule, on the page alerting visitors of the move in progress.

I saved it all these years and thought it would fit perfectly with this post. I'm glad to see people enjoying it as much as I did back then. :)

Hey! Some of those little guys have really good arms and really crappy aim. I just saw one of 'em throw a box OVER the building!

Seems like it doesn't keep playing if it's in the background of the browser -- for example, in another tab -- but it works just fine if it's in the foreground of a *program* that's in the background. When I had a different tab open to keep browsing elsewhere, no progress, but when I opened another browser window, the little guys kept working right along.

Awwwww, I had every upgrade maxed and came here to the discussion page to crow about it and all of the upgrades disappeared. Neither refreshing the page nor the browser's back button worked. I has a sad now.

It was enjoyable at the beginning watching the stickmen move in different speeds, upgrading was cheap, and I was making money fast, then came the hard/boring part, when the game doesn't auto-play itself even when I'm on the same page ! (I tried playing Robot wants JIG aftergame, you know up there at top) I had to face the browser at all times, so here's what I eventually did :

I started intentionally picking up cargo and throwing them up into the skies, then the drop back down raining, what fun and enjoyment it was, but it eventually got boring...so I quitted

Ooh. That sky is lovely, but not exactly accurate. I've got a sunset picture at 6:30pm clock and sun time (I know they're the same, because the Greenwich meridian is only a few miles East of here). In the middle of December it's been dark for a couple of hours.

Hmmm... I wonder whether it takes the time on refresh - and sleeping stops the clock?

@-jS: Fizzlebot is hosted with Dreamhost, and it's been a server I've used to support JIG since I moved the site to its own domain from the servers at RIT where it first began. But Dreamhost hasn't been the most reliable hosting provider over the years, and with us hosting more and more games lately, I really felt that I needed to move the hosted games to a content delivery network. Right now the cost for the CDN alone is about $300/mo. but that depends on bandwidth, and it doesn't include the cost of the servers that serve all the pages of the site.

In terms of visitors per month, we're over 1 million unique visitors a month, over 4 million page views. Bandwidth is difficult to measure since the site is distributed over several servers, but I'd estimate that the site consumes about 5 or 6TBs of bandwidth per month. Content and hosting together costs about $10,0000 per month. The site has grown a lot since its first humble days on the university servers at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Awesome! Thanks, Jay; I always enjoy learning about successful entrepreneurs and what goes into running a site of this caliber. Incidentally, I really appreciate the hosted games; linked games have a tendency to disappear or end up containing inappropriate content.

I went to some great parties at RIT.. and I'll never forget the frigid 1/4-mile wind tunnel you had to walk to get to class.. Brrr!

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